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May 11, 2024 · Pierre Curie (born May 15, 1859, Paris, France—died April 19, 1906, Paris) was a French physical chemist, cowinner with his wife Marie Curie of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. He and Marie discovered radium and polonium in their investigation of radioactivity.
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Apr 30, 2024 · With Henri Becquerel and her husband, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry . She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields.
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2 days ago · Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] ( Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( / ˈkjʊəri / KURE-ee, [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi] ), was a Polish and naturalised -French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
2 days ago · Pierre and Marie Curie in their Paris laboratory, before 1907. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by scientists Henri Becquerel and Marie Skłodowska-Curie, while working with phosphorescent materials.
6 days ago · radium-224. radium (Ra), radioactive chemical element, the heaviest of the alkaline-earth metals of Group 2 (IIa) of the periodic table. Radium is a silvery white metal that does not occur free in nature. (Read Marie Curie’s 1926 Britannica essay on radium.)
5 days ago · InOurTime 20150326 The CuriesIn Our Time Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family. In 1903 Marie and Pierre Curie ...
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May 16, 2024 · Marie Curie, born Maria Skłodowska in 1867, defied societal norms to pursue scientific education. Her groundbreaking research on radioactivity, alongside husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and established the Curie Institutes.
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